Unleashing the Beast

24 / U NLEASHING THE B EAST

And when his work shall be accomplished, another king shall arise out of Syria, born from an evil spirit, the over thrower and destroyer of the human race, who shall destroy that which is left by the former evil, together with himself. Now this is he who is called Antichrist; but he shall falsely call himself Christ, and shall fight against the truth, and being overcome shall flee; and shall renew the war, and often be conquered, until in the fourth battle, all the wicked shall be slain, subdued and captured, he shall at length pay the penalty of his crimes.... (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Book VII, Chapter XVIII.) In a section called "Fragments From The Commentaries," referring to Daniel, we read; And l inquired about the fourth beast. It is the fourth kingdom of which we have already spoken, that he refers: the kingdom, than which no greater kingdom of like nature has arisen upon the earth; from which also ten horns are to spring, and to be apportioned among ten crowns. And amid these another little horn shall rise, which is that of Antichrist. And it shall pluck by the roots the three others before it; that is to say, he shall subvert the three kings of Egypt, Lybia, and Ethiopia, with the view